3:30 PM Saturday Room: 4221
Microsoft reinforces its commitment to web platform standards with the introduction of and ongoing support and improvements of HTML and JavaScript support for Windows 8 client development. The story is good and getting better. I'll assume you've got some web platform skills and hopefully even a bit of experience using it on Windows itself and I'll attempt to take you deeper into the stack to do things like make your own custom controls, tap into the animation library, implement the MVVM pattern, and more. It's bound to be fun! If you don't have any experience developing for Windows 8, don't write the session off. I'm sure you'll still glean some good tidbits at least. 9:15 AM Sunday Room: 4201
Learn to use Scirra Construct2 to make a game for Windows 8 in no time flat. We'll start from scratch in this session, come up with a quick game concept, create some game assets, implement the game in Construct2, and end up with a Visual Studio project ready to be submitted to the Windows Store to get in front of hundreds of millions of eyeballs.